Tamerlane's tomb markings were engraved with the phrase "“When I Rise From the Dead, The World Shall Tremble”. When the tomb was opened, another engraving was found on the inside that read “Whosoever Disturbs My Tomb Will Unleash an Invader More Terrible than I’. It was Soviet researchers that opened the tomb on June 19th, 1941 and exhumed Timur's remains. On June 22nd, 1941, the Nazis invaded the USSR beginning Operation Barbarossa. Late in 1942, Stalin ordered Timur's remains to be returned to the tomb.That winter the USSR would turn the tide of the war at Stalingrad.
Historically elephants were used defensively, like mobile forts. Cavalry would refuse to charge massed elephant formations so they were used to rally fleeing infantry and to provide cover for archers. It's strategic value is best depicted in the Indian version of chess where they are the rooks.
@Sam Bacon It's basic survival instinct, seeing things like thick smoke or other animals on fire is usually the sign of a larger fire somewhere, so they run for their lives.
The diffrence is that the tactics in historic battles made sence. While in GoT do defend a stone castle evry soldier run out and they drag out the siege weapons outside the castle that gets insta killed...
GOT makers knew that world would watch the ending no matter you put less budget. So they chose the smart move to put little time, effort and money and make huge profits instead.
Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9. The remaining descendants of the surviving Timurids - the Chaghataid Turks, still survived in certain parts of Central Asia ( especially Ferghana), nurturing a festering ego ever since their dynasty had fallen into near oblivion. dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/54413/33337527-MIT.pdf?sequence=2 Agra’s Mughal riverfront gardens date from the conquest in 1526 of the Chagatai Turkic prince Babur, descendant of Emperor Timur on his father’s side and the Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan on his mother’s. mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu/2016/03/lost-found-toward-a-living-heritage/
@Veronica Logotheti Timur is a Chagatai Turkic speaking Turkic ruler, who ruled according to the Turco-Mongol and Islamic traditions. The main language of his army was Turkic, whereas the bureaucracy spoke mainly Persian. Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
@Veronica Logotheti You're a fucking moron. The Turks constantly killed and fought against each other, what kind of reason is that? The Gokturks were destroyed by the Turkic Kyrgyz, the Ghaznavids by the hands of the Seljuks, the Safavids and Sheybanis fought each other, the Ottomans destroyed several Turkic beyliks... Please tell me that you are joking.
Just a little clarification about Toktamish. That was arguably the most difficult and glorious win in Tamerland life. Both armies were almost identical , horse archers about 100 000 each , and they chase each other for about 1500 miles from the north shores of Black Sea to Central Asia. Crazy.
The first defeat of Tokhtamysh against Timur 1391 battle on the Kondurche River the second defeat of Tokhtamysh against Timur 1395 battle on the banks of the Terek River. So Tokhtamysh was not such a strong enemy
@@Medjed-y3gLosing to Timur doesn’t make you weak. Bayazid the Thunderbolt had defeated a European force before losing to Timur. In one victory against Totkamish Timur bribed the other side. He did the same thing in his victory against Bayazid.
Exactly. Timur was from Barlas tribe, the ex-Mongol tribe, who adopted Turkic language in 14 century. Those Mongols, who went to the West (Golden Horde, Chagatay, Ilkhanate), changed their language to Turkic and Iranic (Hazara) languages of conquered peoples. Mongols were a small minority among Turkic-Iranic masses of Central Asia. Only those Mongols, who stayed in East Asia (modern day China, Mongolia, Russia), saved their Mongol language and pagan religion. Btw later most of Barlas tribe was assimilated by Uzbeks, but in Tajikistan there are still about 5 000 people, who identify themselves as ethnic Barlas. In Tajikistan they are officialy recognized as separate Turkic ethnic group.
Just returned from a month in Uzbekistan and having visited Samarkand your video was very educational. Amazing place steeped in history and a mixture of many cultures! Great job.
Timur against Ming China would have been the bloodiest campaign of ancient world history, that I'm sure of. But still we can name Timur in one breath with the greatest like Alexander and Genghis Khan. His accomplishments are really extraordinary - defeating four empires, and never losing any single battle, while fighting wars at every front of your border. And he valued art, engineering and culture. The Turkic language flourished under his rule - it changed from the status of a simple army language to a language of science and poetry during his reign.
It would be too bloody if he managed to launch an attack on Ming China before passed away in the journey. An aging T-rex vs a prime Spinosaurus in the swamps? Holy Sh*t, I don't know how many lives would have been lost if this clash did happen! According to EU4: Tamerlane: 566 ruler Zhu Di: 665 ruler Tamerlane annihilated/humiliated several great powers. Zhu DI overthrew his nephew and usurped the throne through military campaigns, and launched seven maritime expeditions that reached as far as modern Somali. (Zheng He's voyage.) But the main battlefield would be inside China. That's why I called this clash an aging T-rex vs a prime Spinosaurus, but near the Spinosaur's home, swamps.
The Mongolian invasions of Central Asian and the Middle East, then the black plague, followed by Timur. How could anyone expect civilization to come back after that? That part of the world wasn't quite the same after 1200 - 1530 ...
@King Wiwuz IV I consider the Ottomans their own branch. Anatolia was largely spared of the apocalyptic invasions of the Mongols, Timurids, Nader Shah, etc. The center of the Islamic intellectual world was Bagdad, Samarkand, and cities in lower Iran. They were just getting started on things like Optics, and flirting with "theistic atheism" when their civilization effectively got hit by a nuke. People tend to copy their historical forebears. Generals after Alexander and Caesar tried to emulate their deeds. Ghengis and his ilk spawned a number of historical 'copy cat killers' - among them Timur and Nader Shah (as well as many Turko-Afghan warlords that invaded India). Their brand of cruelty was hard to shake as many warlords that came before tried to emulate them. Combine this with the fact that Europeans started to circumvent the thousands of years long trade networks around this time - I think that the Portuguese were sailing around Africa in the early 1500s, and Spain found the new world shortly before then. So - > Mongols - 1200s > Black Death - 1300s > Copy cat killers - 1300 to 1700s > Loss of the Silk Road - 1500s > 'Sudden' appearance of European superpowers - 1600s Central Asia and Iran/Iraq didn't really get breathing room after the 1200s. Yes, Islam needed reforming. But there is a lot more to it.
@@tmcdowell7977 The Mongols never really ended the muslim dominance in that region, it just made the Arabs a lot weaker and made the Turks the dominant force in the muslim world.
@@LucasDimoveo Pretty sure those achievement thx to mu'tazilites who were already becoming rare scholars thx to Ashari theology. So no even if Mongols came it was already rotten tree.
Fun fact about Tokhtamysh; he was supported in his last stand against Tamerlane by the Grand Duke of Lithuania - Vytautas the Great. Despite that Vytautas did it completely independently from his cousin, king of Poland and officially the "Supreme Grand Duke of Lithuania" Jogaila (Władysław Jagiełło), many Polish knights volunteered to fight in his army. He even got the support of the bitter enemy of Lithuania - the Teutonic Order. Although this campaign ended in a defeat in the battle of Vorskla in 1399, Vytautas offered the former supporters of Tokhtamysh refuge in his realm, which was the main origin of the Tatar community in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
@Hissam Ullah Obviously he survived, how could he offer anyone refuge afterward if he didn't? ;) Speaking about Grunwald, those refugees from the Golden Horde also fought there, and their descendants kept fighting for the Grand Duchy and the Commonwealth for centuries.
@Abu Troll al cockroachistan 450k and 600k armies..? In that age..? I'd cut the numbers by 10, maybe even 20 times. There's no way such armies could be standing at the same time in a war. Napoleon's Grand Army that marched towards Russia on a well infrastructured land was about that size and it was in early 19th century yet so many died due to plain cold. History shouldn't be fooled around with.
@Abu Troll al cockroachistan I'm sorry that i don't believe medieval historians that always overestimated their numbers. Easily debunkable with few simple questions. How much does a horse eat? How much stuff can a horse eat in mountains/steppes/forests/tundras. Mongolias population today is a joke, how could it wield hundreds of thousands of horse archers 8 centuries ago? My skepticism is coming purely from comparison. In most cases it wins thanks to basic calculation... but i'm open to hear how those monstrous armies were formed, fed, geared and most importantly led by dirt poor medieval countries. It just doesn't make much sense to me.
The usual storyline of Iranian history after Islam: 1. Invasion by brutal people, 2. Early destruction of monuments and mass killing and bloodshed of the civilians, 3. The conquerer tribe starts to respect the Iranian/Persian culture, philosophies, language, and political system, 4. Then they become a well-known scientist/poet/artist and a great preacher of Persian/Iranian culture to other nations. It is magic, that this culture still exits on the face of the earth, its language is still spoken, and its philosophies remained so much influential. Isn't it?
DAS except Iranian culture and DNA kept changing for milleniums. Greeks, Arabs, Turks influenced Iran and vice versa. Pretty much nothing left from ancient Persia these days. Religion, language, ethnicity basically culture is quite different from Achemenid and Sassanid times.
@@S.Solmazturk Nah, it hasnt changed much. Iranians still celebrate nowruz, chaharshanbe suri, shabe yalda and among other holidays. These are all pre-islamic traditions. Language is still persian, there are stil many zoroastrians and persians still exist. Genetically, iran has remained the same since the Iron age too. ua-cam.com/video/PtFXKevtYqs/v-deo.html
6:10 Bayezid spent years exchanging letters with Timur, typically arguing whose manhood is bigger ... Timur launching a full-scale invasion to Anatolia
He got that Arrow on his knee much later. During the war, close to Tashkent city. The name of the war is Loy Jangi . His mongol brother in law run away. But Temur won it anyway. And only Temur's enemies called him Temur lang. But we call Him Amir Temur.
About Timur's life will learn a long time, it will not end. Why? That's why he was greatest, now is his name great and in the future will be the greatest person of all time.
Ruy Gonzales De Clavijo, a Spanish nobleman who went to the palace of Timur to Samarkand as ambassador, stated in his book The Life of Timur & Travels from Kadiz to Samarkand, that Timur was descended from a noble generation of Turk immigrants who boasted of their lineage. [14] While Richard Bulliet says that Barlas has nothing to do with Mongols,[15] Rene Grousset [16] states that Timur's ancestry is based on Genghis in the books written in his time, whereas Timur is not related to Mongols and says that Timur is Turk.. Timur:We are Melik of Turan, Amir of Turkestan. We are sons of Turk. I am the Chieftain of the oldest and greatest nation! Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi/Zafarnama ...emirs. Sensing an opportu- nity, Timur (also known in English as Tamerlane), the leader of the Chagatai Turks, moved against Syria. In the closing decades of the fourteenth century Timur had created an empire that included much of Central Asia, Iran, and Iraq. Though Timur was not him- self a Mongol,... (pp. 84-107) Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography Princeton University Press (2018) It is true that Barlas is identical with Barulas in the list of the Turkish nirqbn tribes, see Rashld al-dln, ed. Berezin, vii, 265* Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1954), pp. 600-602 ...Barlas tribe of Central Asia was largely of Turkic origin with mixed Mongolian ancestry. From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia Adil Hussain Khan Indiana University Press (2015) TAMERLANE (1336-1405). Turkic chieftain and conqueror. He was not Mongol, but sought to trace Mongol connections through his wife's ancestors. The A to Z of the Mongol World Empire Amir Tîmûr-i-lang, also known as Tamerlane, was a Barlâs Turk of a noble family. By the time he was born, however, his family had fallen on hard times and lived by banditry. indicmandala.com/zafar-nama/ Who were the Timurids? Ulugh Beg was the grandson of Timur, known in the west as Tamerlane, or 'Timur the Lame', due to a leg injury sustained in battle. Originally the ruler of a small Turkish tribe, Timur conquered the whole of Iran and Central Asia to create the Timurid Empire. www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/MeHtWABVSaaHNHl4ndc4rQ A comprehensive history of Iran in the early fifteenth century, under the Timurids, a Turkic dynasty of nomadic origin. www.amazon.com/Politics-Religion-Timurid-Cambridge-Civilization/dp/0521865476 His father was from the Turkish stock, probably also descended from the same Turkish tribes who accompanied the Mongol warriors in their conquest of Transoxiana and then settled in the new territory. iranologie.com/the-history-page/timurids/ Timur founded Timurids dynasty during the late 14th century. He was a Turk from Transoxiana nomads and son of a warrior. www.destinationiran.com/history-timurids-invaders-iran.htm Temür and his followers were Turks loyal to the Mongol tradition, but they were also Muslim and well acquainted with Perso-Islamic culture. oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-10 One of the Turkish tribes was the Barlas, a member of which, Timur the son of Taraghay, was to prove himself an extremely adept politician and warrior, rising to power in the third quarter of the 14th century as Mongol authority waned ( see Timurid , §II, A). www.oxfordreference.com/search?q=Barlas+clan&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true Timur or Tamurlane, the fourteenthcentury Turkic ( see Turko-Mongol Mythology ) warrior-king and founder of the Timurid... www.oxfordreference.com/search?q=Turko-Mongol&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true Timur Lenk, the Turcic conqueror invaded India in 1398. oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t236/e0931 Asian regions and cities during the Mughal Empire. The Mughal Empire dates from 1526 when Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur ( 1483-1530 ), the Turco-Mongol ruler of Kabul, invaded northern India and declared himself its emperor. He based his imperious claim on the brief conquest of Delhi in 1398 by his distant Turkish ancestor Timur ( aka Tamerlane , 1336-1405 ), conqueror of Central Asia. oxfordre.com/search?q=Turco-Mongol&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true The Timurid dynasty was founded in 1370 by the Turkic warlord Temür, usually known in the west as Tamerlane (Temür the lame). oxfordre.com/asianhistory/oso/viewentry/10.1093$002facrefore$002f9780190277727.001.0001$002facrefore-9780190277727-e-10 A Central Asian (see Central Asian Mythology) epic cycle about the conquests of Timur or Tamurlane, the fourteenthcentury Turkic) warrior-king and founder of the Timurid dynasty. www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803104707159 Tamerlane (Timur-i Lang, Timur the Lame) (1336-1405) Outstanding political and military tactician; rallied tribal support in the region east of the Ferghana Valley, and established a Turkic dynasty based on Samarkand and ... www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001/acref-9780198662624-e-5583?rskey=X4sFeH&result=15 Timur was not a Mongol himself, but from the Turkic Barlas tribe in Transoxania, now Uzbekistan. www.oxfordreference.com/search?q=Timur+was+not&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true A Timurid is one of his descendants; a member of the Turkic dynasty founded by him, which ruled in central Asia until the 16th century. www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803104707142 The founder, Timur Leng, was a Chagatai Turk of the Barlas tribe in the region of Kish, Western Turkestan. www.iis.ac.uk/encyclopaedia-articles/timurids The Timurid Empire was a powerful, conquest-driven empire that devolved into disunited dynasties more noted for artistic than political endeavors. Tamerlane (Timur Lang) (1336-1405) was not a Mongol but emerged out of the chaos of post-Mongol Turkistan. www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/empires-timurid Although his people (Turks), the various lineages of the Barlas, lived a pastoral life and became nomads, they existed in close proximity to sedentary people and sedentary culture, even while antagonistic to it. www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/empires-timurid Descended from Turkish (not Mongol) stock no longer migratory, Timur began his career with an attempt to free his native Transoxania. www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/timur-tamerlane In 1398 Timur, the Turkic warrior from Central Asia(known in the West as Tamerlane) www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/sultanate-painting Tamerlane is Marozzi's biography of the great fourteenth-century Turkic conqueror Timur www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/marozzi-justin-1970 Timur (Tamerlane), a Muslim Turkic leader www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/world-events-selected-occurrences-outside-west-africa After the Mongol Dynasty of the Il-Khans, Persia was ruled for a short period (c.1380-1469) by timur (Tamerlane) and his successors. These Central-Asian Turkish rulers, with their capitals of Samarqand or Herat, were great patrons of the arts and literature. www.encyclopedia.com/history/asia-and-africa/ancient-history-middle-east/persia Timur was born around 1336 in Transoxania near Kesh - later known as Shahrisabz - in the Kashka Darya region of what is today the Republic of Uzbekistan. He was a Turk of the Barlas tribe; this tribe, like many others, boasted a Mongol name and ancestry, but for all practical purposes it was Turkic. www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-inner-asia/timur-and-the-timurids/EDCB0CBC613DC35ED74785C0DD97EB62 Timur was born in Kesh, near Samarkand, Transoxania (now in Uzbekistan), in 1336. He was a member of the Turkic Barlas clan of Mongols. kids.britannica.com/students/article/Timur/277364 Actual power lay in the hands of the amir Timur (Tamerlane, 1336-1405) who continued the Chagatai rule although he was not a Mongol himself. www.britannica.com/place/Mongol-empire/Mongol-empires-in-central-Asia Timur (Tamerlane) was a Turk, not a Mongol, but he aimed to restore Mongol power. www.britannica.com/topic/Islamic-world/Conversion-of-Mongols-to-Islam The dynasty was founded by a Chagatai Turkic prince named Bābur (reigned 1526-30), who was descended from the Turkic conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) on his father’s side and from Chagatai, second son of the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, on his mother’s side. www.britannica.com/topic/Mughal-dynasty Timurid dynasty, (fl. 15th-16th century CE), dynasty of Turkic-Mongol origin descended from the conqueror Timur(Tamerlane). www.britannica.com/topic/Timurid-dynasty Although claiming to descend distantly, and by his mother, from Chingiz khān (Genghis khān), Bāber, the founder in India of the Mughal dynasty, was a Chaghātai Turk, who, through his father, was descended from Timūr-Lang (Tamerlan), Turkish Barlās reigning in Samarkand at the end of the 14th century and who invaded India in 1398. www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/moghols/ www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/57819?position=0
Only found your channel not long ago. Been watching the older video you made while catching up with the new ones. Great to see these on Central Asia, a part of the world that is very often forgotten or ignored. So much history in the region to be explored.
Hahahah. He was mongol. He was from one of mongolian tribes. In fact, his spirit comes down to one of cousins who is shaman and direct descedent of him
Timur borned Barlas clan of Mongolia . 14th century doesn't exist Uzbekistan (their descendant is kipchak and before 2000 year they was under control Hunnu mongol empire ).Uzbekistan was Oirad Mongol territory 17th century after Oirad massacre they moved to this place
Timur was from Barlas tribe, the ex-Mongol tribe, who adopted Turkic language in 14 century. Those Mongols, who went to the West (Golden Horde, Chagatay, Ilkhanate), changed their language to Turkic and Iranic (Hazara) languages of conquered peoples. Mongols were a small minority among Turkic-Iranic masses of Central Asia. Only those Mongols, who stayed in East Asia (modern day China, Mongolia, Russia), saved their Mongol language and pagan religion. Btw later most of Barlas tribe was assimilated by Uzbeks, but in Tajikistan there are still about 5 000 people, who identify themselves as ethnic Barlas. In Tajikistan they are officialy recognized as separate Turkic ethnic group.
The inhabitants of Chagatai Ulus and Jochi Ulus were originally Turks. The Turks have such tribes as Barlas, Kongrats, Mangyts, Kipchaks, etc. because the Turks and Mongols come from Altai, they are related peoples like the Germans and the British.
@@Illusionz-de2mo Timur was a Turkic Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9. dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/54413/33337527-MIT.pdf?sequence=2
Imagine if he had faced Hongwu and Yongle like he was supposed to do, it would have been one of the greatest confrontation and probably the biggest of the period
Timur was from Turk-Mongol tribe which is Uzbekian tribe at the moment. He had book written. In that book, he said "I am kingdom of Turon and king of Turkistan, we are main generation of Turks" He was Turk in reality, but he was Mongol in miths and legend, because more writers wanted him to depend on Chingizxon.
@@refl1x362 No, he said. Because, we learn his book (Temur tuzuklari) Do you know his grandchild Ulughbek. We read his book (Tõrt ulus tarixi) without translation. Because he wrote and spoke in Chigatay turk language (that our old language, uzbek language is generation of chigatay language) So, they wrote and spoke in turkic. They were turkic, not mongolic or persian.
@@refl1x362 That's exactly what he said!! The fact that you do not know about these words of Timur does not mean that he did not say these words! He stated that they are the main generation of Turks in his book "Temur tuzuklari ". This is a fact.
Great video! This is best brief summary of Tamerlane’s life and legacy that I’ve seen! Tamerlane indirectly contributed to the rise of Muscovy by ravaging the lands of the Golden Horde to the north of his empire in the 1390s. He completely ravaged northern India. He also delayed the conquest of Constantinople by 50 years by defeating the Ottomans at the Battle of Ankara. Overall, Tamerlane had an enormous impact on history.
@@nedimduman2484not really during his time Scientific feat in Islamic state occured 2 second time since the golden age of Islam,they had big scientific successes especially in the spheres of astronomy,math, literature(btw it was Timur in whose time Turkic language was considered as literature language and high elite language) and architecture. Guess what, Buildings built by Timur and his descendants(who built by using Timur's style) are regarded as most valuable and most beautiful constructions(among them there is one of the 7 wonders)
I became fascinated by this historical figure ever since I studied the play "Tamburlaine" by Christopher Marlowe(Shakespeare's contemporary) and a little later I discovered the stunning opera "Tamerlano" by George Frederick Handel the eighteenth century Anglo-German composer who wrote operas in Italian.There are also many operas about Timur's great adversary the Ottoman sultan Bajazet -notably by Vivaldi and Gasparini..The story that Timur carried Bajazet around in a cage is however fictional.
@@mfoteinos No, we aren't related and we weren't either. Our old culture and religion was just similar. Actually it was almost same but we are totally different. They are not Turk and we are not Mongol. :)
@@mfoteinos yes it is really puzzling. First Turks appeared on south siberia around Altai mountains after that they come south (chinese border) and today's mongolia. Turks and mongols doesnt have anything common but nomad life style. Roughly!(very roughly) we separate turks in to two groups 1- khipchak (today's kazakhistan, kirgyizistan, uzbekistan mainly this branch) also Timur is probably uzbek(i dont know for sure) 2-oughuz (today's turkey, azerbeijan, turkmenistan ) History of central asia is very difficult to understand. Good luck with that
@@cagriozkan1936 thanks a lot for that info. Another question. What's the difference between seljuk turks and ottoman turks? Is there a difference in ethnicity or just a different name? Thanks. Greetings from Greece.
Timur, created one of the largest, yet short-lived realms that ever existed in Central Asia. He was an unscrupulous conqueror who had 100s of thousands of people murdered in the conquered territories and cities, including the Sultanate of Delhi, the Kingdom of Georgia, in Persia and elsewhere, and merciless defeated. Wherever he appeared he separated the light from the shadows. Thus, in the conquest of Isfahan in 1387 AD in Persia 28 skull towers were counted on one city side according to Hafiz-i Abru, so that one can expect a death toll of 70,000. In the town of Isfizar, he had 2,000 people buried alive. He was the most cruel Turco-Mongol butcher of the history with several million victims, strangulating, among others, 100,000 Hindus in Delhi in 1398 AD, the murder of 90,000 Arabs in Baghdad in 1401 AD, and the massive battles between 100 of thousands of Turks and Mongols and others characterize his rule as one of the darkest eras in HUMAN history on the Eurasian continent.
Don't bluff bro u better read the books about Hazrat Timur well he never became the cruel person he was muslim nd we muslims never hurt anybody Hazrat Timur conquered so many places but he didn't kill people intentionally he had reasons for this as i told u better read well
Taimur was a bloody evil king. His name will go down in history as one of the most cruel evil bastards of all time. He was a Muslim in name only. I hope he rots in his grave for all the evil deeds
You better ask Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala for forgiveness for you and your beloved ones instead of hoping someone having offended in the grave what you have done for this ummah by today nothing right!? And you are talking only shit
Buddy u gotta read history a bit more cautious cuz Timurids empire actually lasted around 468 years, that's almost 5 centuries,darkest era was when mongols conquered whole Asia devastating Muslims scientific treasure, ending civilisations.Meanwhile during Timurids era scientific feat again happened in Islamic state under Ulugʻbek's rule especially in the fields of astronomy,math, literature and architecture. Buildings constructed by Timur and His descendants still standing from central Asia to indian subcontinent,some of them being one of the most valuable and beautiful buildings ever built(7 wonders ). Apart from all that,they were Timurids who exceedee china in economy being the wealthiest empire of its time. In general case Timur's influence was massive and the one who made Moscow rid of golden horde was Timur as a result one of the biggest empires origunated a bit later Timur's death.
Truly fine and knowledgable video,, wonderful narration with historical facts,,, first time I am watching such a knowledgable video as I personally loved TAMERLANE since my childhood I have reading every book written on him,, I love notorious American Historian HEROLD LAMB whose books on history are world best so far,,, i.have a collection of his all books especially about Tamerlane being my most favourite character in history. I have had read first book at age of 10 written by Herold Lamb in 1968 , since then I am reading every book about Tamerlane,,,now into 50s living in USA still loves this great Conqueror of the world,,the last one who tried to conquer the world through SWORD. great uploading
6:40 Just a small correction, the area labeled the Tibetan Empire should be called the Tibetan Kingdoms. It was not unified and imperialistic like the original Tibetan Empire which fell in the ninth century, but was actually made of several kingdoms who fought each other.
One striking aspect of him was when I read the tuzuk I timuri was whenever the situation was dire and hopeless, a good news arrived . And he went on his knees “ to thank god immediately” . Time and again he mentions it . Remember people “ whatever you are thankful for , multiples “
Would love it if you covered the Indian subcontinent. Difficult to find any videos let alone videos in English. Would really like to know more about the pala dynasty.
Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9. dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/54413/33337527-MIT.pdf?sequence=2
I read an ancient book in spanish called ¨Embasy to Timerland¨ that describes the travel from Castilla to Shamarkanda of 3 Castilla King to Timur and its written in old spanish but its a beautiful tale
@@obidkhujayorovofficial well most princes married moghul dignitaries' daughters at that time so they can have power he was related to moghuls on his mother side but his father was Timur's son or grandson
Timur was buried in an elaborate tomb in Samarkand, and the legend was that there'd be a curse on whoever disturbed his bones. Five centuries later, Soviet archaeologists opened up the tomb--in 1941, shortly before the devastating Nazi invasion!
The Timurids , perhaps the most glorious of all dynasties originat- ing from East Iran, succeeded the Mongols.These were Turkic natives of Transoxiana who, despite initial successes in West Asia. “General Conclusions and Postscript.” ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity, by Khodadad Rezakhani, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2017, pp. 185-193. Emergence of Timur Lenk (Tamerlane) a Turk who rose in the Mongol service in Transaxonia to conquer much of central and western asia. RUTHVEN, M., & NANJI, A. (2004). Historical atlas of Islam. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press. pp. 196 The cen- tral icon of the Uzbek nation-building campaign was the fourteenth-century Turkic conqueror Amir Timur, known in the West as Tamerlane. “Border and Post-Soviet Predicament.” Under Solomon's Throne: Uzbek Visions of Renewal in Osh, by MORGAN Y. LIU, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2012, pp. 43-73. Much like the push of the Huns two centuries prior, and, later, of the Mongols and Timurid Turks “The Emergence of Islam.” War and Religion: Europe and the Mediterranean from the First through the Twenty-First Centuries, by Arnaud Blin, 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2019, pp. 79-113. Timur, if one wants to characterise him aptly, was a Turkish aristo- crat of Central Asian origin, in essence a military man but not lacking either in cultural interests or intellectual refinement. Roemer, H. (1986). TĪMŪR IN IRAN. In P. Jackson & L. Lockhart (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Iran (The Cambridge History of Iran, pp. 42-97). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521200943.003 Temür (T.): Turkic conquerer, (d.1405) timar (Per.) Ottoman land grant given in exchange for military service; similar to the Mughal jagir, q.v. Timurids: descendants of Temür, otherwise known in Persian as Timür-i leng or in English as “Timür the Lame” (Tamerlane) türbe (Ar.) Dale, S. (2009). Glossary. In The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals (New Approaches to Asian History, pp. 293-298). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511818646.013 Descent from the Central Asian rulers, Chinggis Qan and Temür, legitimized the Mughals, and originally Central Asian Turkic traditions comprised a common heritage of rulers in all three empires. Most Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal monarchs also patronized common literary and artistic cultures that were at least partly secular, and which especially pious individuals sometimes criticized for that reason. Dale, S. (2009). Introduction. In The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals (New Approaches to Asian History, pp. 1-9). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511818646.003 Once again the invasion came from central Asia; this time it was Tamerlane, a Barlas Turk, who set up a new empire with Samarqand as his capital. Tamerlane is perhaps the greatest conqueror Asia has ever produced. The name Tamerlane, by which he is known to Europe, is derived from his nickname Timur-i-Lang or c The Lame Timur', for he was wounded in the foot in a minor encounter in Afghanistan. He was born in 13 3 5, the son of a chief of a Turkish tribe. Elgood, C. (2010). The Empire of Tamerlane. In A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate: From the Earliest Times Until the Year A.D. 1932 (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine, pp. 324-347). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511710766.013 He was a Turk of the Barlas tribe; this tribe, like many others, boasted a Mongol name and ancestry, but for all prac- tical purposes it was Turkic. Turki was thus Timur’s mother tongue, although he may have known some Persian from the cultural milieu in which he lived; he almost certainly knew no Mongolian, though Mongol terminology had not quite disappeared from administrative documents and coins. Soucek, S. (2000). Timur and the Timurids. In A History of Inner Asia (pp. 123-143). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511991523.011 The Timurid dynasty was founded in 1370 by the Turkic warlord Temür, usually known in the west as Tamerlane (Temür the lame). Temür and his followers were Turks loyal to the Mongol tradition, but they were also Muslim and well acquainted with Perso-Islamic culture. Forbes Manz, B. (2018, April 26). Tamerlane and the Timurids. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Tamerlane (Timur-i Lang, Timur the Lame) (1336-1405) Outstanding political and military tactician; rallied tribal support in the region east of the Ferghana Valley, and established a Turkic dynasty based on Samarkand 2010). Tamerlane. In The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. : Oxford University Press. Eastern Turkic Timurids and the Western Turkic Oghuz of the Ottoman Empire actually dated to the earliest days Schluessel, Eric T. 2016. The Muslim Emperor of China: Everyday Politics in Colonial Xinjiang, 1877-1933. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9. The remaining descendants of the surviving Timurids - the Chaghataid Turks, still survived in certain parts of Central Asia ( especially Ferghana), nurturing a festering ego ever since their dynasty had fallen into near oblivion. Timurid central Asia and Mughal India : some correlations regarding urban design concepts and the typology of the Muslim house Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995. Once again the invasion came from central Asia; this time it was Tamerlane, a Barlas Turk, who set up a new empire with Samarqand as his capital. Tamerlane is perhaps the greatest conqueror Asia has ever produced. The name Tamerlane, by which he is known to Europe, is derived from his nickname Timur-i-Lang or c The Lame Timur', for he was wounded in the foot in a minor encounter in Afghanistan. He was born in 13 3 5, the son of a chief of a Turkish tribe. Elgood, C. (2010). The Empire of Tamerlane. In A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate: From the Earliest Times Until the Year A.D. 1932(Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine, pp. 324-347). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511710766.013 "Belonging to a minor military family, and of Turkish origin, Timur was born in Transoxiana (present-day Uzbekistan) in the fourteenth century. He rose to prominence in the service of the local Mongol ruler, claimed to be descended from Chingiz-Khan, and defeated all competitors." Massoume Price (2005). Iran's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook. ABC-CLIO. p. 56. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001-2005. "Tamerlane, c.1336-1405, Turkic conqueror, b. Kesh, near Samarkand. He is also called Timur Leng (Faisal R.). Gérard Chaliand, Nomadic Empires: From Mongolia to the Danube translated by A.M. Berrett, Transaction Publishers, 2004. translated by A.M. Berrett. Transaction Publishers, p.75. ISBN 0-7658-0204-X. Limited preview at Google Books. p. 75., ISBN 0-7658-0204-X, p.75., "Timur Leng (Tamerlane) Timur, known as the lame (1336-1405) was a Muslim Turk. He aspired to recreate the empire of his ancestors. He was a military genius who loved to play chess in his spare time to improve his military tactics and skill. And although he wielded absolute power, he never called himself more than an emir.", "Timur Leng (Tamerlane) Timur, known as the lame (1336-1405) was a Muslim Turk from the Ulus of Chagatai who saw himself as Genghis Khan's heir." ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, "Timurid Dynasty", Online Academic Edition, 2007. (Quotation:...Turkic dynasty descended from the conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), renowned for its brilliant revival of artistic and intellectual life in Iran and Central Asia....Trading and artistic communities were brought into the capital city of Herat, where a library was founded, and the capital became the centre of a renewed and artistically brilliant Persian culture...) Barlas tribe of Central Asia was largely of Turkic origin with mixed Mongolian ancestry “Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani before Prophethood.” From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia, by Adil Hussain Khan, Indiana University Press, 2015, pp. 21-41.
Nadir Shah admired Timur, and wanted to be like him. He also invaded Delhi and massacred the populace of Delhi even after surrender on some flimsy pretext just like Timur.
I went to Torkhum, its a border town between Pakistan and Afghanistan. There I saw a chamber on a hill. This chamber was built by Timur to punish people. It was a like a meat-grounding machine. People would be thrown from the top and pieces would be collected at the bottom of a hill in that chamber. Many sharp cutting tools and gravity would do the rest of the job.
Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9. dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/54413/33337527-MIT.pdf?sequence=2
You're looking at it wrong. Super villains are remembered as an example of who *not* to be. Good people are remembered as examples of who to emulate. Everyone dies, empires crumble, but bad people are remembered as an example of the people to watch out for in the future. We're here to learn from our history, not to repeat its mistakes.
Timur was racist against Turks, go read his letters to bayezid. His descendant Mirza dughlat wrote the book tarikh e Rashdi in which he calls uzbeks the abominable race. Your real king is shaybani whos head was turned into a drinking cup for Babur.
@@ben-ben2366 Timur himself is someone who has both Turkish and Mongolian roots, but it has nothing to do with Mongolia, and this is a fact. Timur is someone who even Ibn Khaldun, who has Turkic-Iranian characteristics in terms of language and culture, referred to as a Turk in his work. It is true that Timur fought the Ottoman Turks, but he took from the Ottomans. It should not be forgotten that Timur fought a lot with the Mongols, the most obvious example being the Golden Horde and the Tokhtamysh Khan incident. He also fought a lot with the Persians, the most obvious example being the Isfahan incident :)
@MuhteşemYüzyıl_Edit@MuhteşemYüzyıl_Edit You turkifed anatolian rat, there is nothing Turkish about Timur. He was mongol barlas on both sides of his family, not a single family member of his was Turkic. It's always the least turkic ones like y dogs from anakra that have the biggest mouth about stealing others history. Go read how Timurs letters to Bayezid on how he called Turkish people uncivilised and from a lowly origin, go read mirza dughat how he called turkic groups like Uzbeks the abominable race, maybe you'll learn some real turkic history.
@Tanju Pro Then BHAGAT Singh, Subhash Chandra Bose Fucked Britain, that Entire British Indian NAVAL, AIRFORCE Made Britain Commander to Follow the rule..
Timur is turkic his name means iron ( also in mongolian) he was about to conquer china but he passed away, his descendants found the mughal empire ( babur empire), which was a Turkic empire :)
Are we really going to gloss over the fact that he set camels on fire to combat armored elephants with poisoned tusks? And people say history is boring... Seriously, that's fucking metal as fuck!
Thank you for this amazing video! I've always had a hard time keeping Tamerlane's story straight in my head--but you really did a good job centering the map, showing his conquests, and getting down to the nitty gritty of what he did and how he did it, as well as his descendants. You've made me a huge fan of one of history's greatest butchers and genociders! Thank you!
*Fun Fact: the scenes depicting Tamerlane* near the end of the video are actually *from a Russian bank commercial!* Bank Imperial (Банк Империал) randomly depicts episodes of Russian history in their publicities.
The name of Amir Timur used to strike terror into the hearts of all who heard it, but now few outside of central Asia have even heard of one of the most successful conquerors in history, and a symbol of the legacy of the Mongols overshadowed only by Genghis Khan. Thank you for making this video, Timurid history really deserves more attention than it gets. Also your art is getting better with every video, it really adds to the atmosphere and appeal.
Did Alexander or chengiz even in old age conquered any countries? But this was Timur 80 years old moved to Conquered China. But he died in ming China boundary. He did not lost any battle. He fought from 20 to 80 age. Never taken rest. Other side chinghiz conquered most of his land by his millatory generals. His empire exceeded by his sons. He is not famous in the world because he was Muslim. And people does not interest him
Remember studying him during Kazakh history lessons. Temir means iron in Kazakh. Currently, Temirlan and Tamerlan are two incredibly widespread names among all Kazakhs
Timur also means iron in modern Turkish. But we call iron "demir" and timur is completely different word. It still carries the meaning of iron, but since demir is a separate word, only name feature of timur remains.
Great video but you didnt mention the Timurid victory over the Mamlukes, Timurid raid in Russia, Golden Horde became subject and it was the Kara Koyunlu and Ak Koyunlu which pushed the Timurids from west instead of the Safavids.
Funfact: when his body was found (in the 1900's), it said something along the lines of "whomsoever finds my tomb shall unleash an invader worse thsn i" (as I remember anyway) and three days later, Hitler invaded Soviet Russia via operation barborossa (?) So that's kind of a scary coincidence.
“Timur “ meanning ( Turkic: Demir) (English : İron ) Our ancestor , He not lose any war , Won 80 Battle. He Speaking Caghatai Turkic And he Said “ We are Melik-i ( Ruler) of Turan , Emir-i(Leader) of Turkestan “ 🐺🐺🐺🐺
Hakan BEY The rulers of Göktürk were Iranic Saka-Wusun Origin form the Ashina Tribe not Turkic 🤣🤣 Turkic history is joke according to H. W. Haussig, S. G. Klyashtorny, A. N. Bernstamm, C. V. Findley,] D.G. Savinov, S. P. Guschin, Rona-Tas, and R. N. Frye. Chinese Primary Sources: Book of Sui , Book Of Zhou, History Of The Northern Dynasties. Turkic history is big joke
thanks for making the video, we uzbeks have always been proud of our great king AMIR TEMUR. His motto was (KUCH ADOLATDADUR) meaning: the power is in justice, i did not know that he was infamous for his savage destructions
Timur is a Karluk Turk, he has never used the title of "khan" to show that he is not a Mongolian, he has chosen the nickname Emir for himself, a great military genius Emir Timur
Ahahahahah no Temur hated the Turks and Persians most of all, for which he brutally dealt with them, and he loved the Mongols most of all, and therefore tried to revive the Mongol great power
The troops of Tamerlane are mostly Kalmaks, Sarts (Chagatai), Tatars, but not the Tatars of modern Tatarstan, but the Tatars Mongols, in ancient Russia, Russians called all foreigners Tatars, even Chechens
Tatars because the troops of Genghis Khan were compared with the hellish dogs of hell tartar I think you heard about such a legend from this word and the name tat went
Im glad to leave a comment , I follow ypur channel a while now , and I really like your contend , very cool drawings combined with history that is not so much known in europe and western states :)
So Timur is just a mount and blade protagonist in real life?
I'll drink from your skull.
I'm actually surpries that there's no mod for warband set in Iranian and Islamic world at the era.
Exactly what i thought. "It's almost harvesting season!"
@@pladimir_vutin Horseback warfare was almost always the most satisfiying to me. Slashing or shooting people from horseback is just so much fun.
@@hasanmacit8454 thanks a lot pal!
I'll check it out.
Tamerlane's tomb markings were engraved with the phrase "“When I Rise From the Dead, The World Shall Tremble”. When the tomb was opened, another engraving was found on the inside that read “Whosoever Disturbs My Tomb Will Unleash an Invader More Terrible than I’. It was Soviet researchers that opened the tomb on June 19th, 1941 and exhumed Timur's remains. On June 22nd, 1941, the Nazis invaded the USSR beginning Operation Barbarossa. Late in 1942, Stalin ordered Timur's remains to be returned to the tomb.That winter the USSR would turn the tide of the war at Stalingrad.
Right
Wasnt that Kublai khans tomb?
Also has the worst curse in history.
Eat your heart out Montezuma.
@@tancreddehauteville9983- What does a Norman have to do with a Mongol warrior?
Holy Curse of Timur's Tomb, Batman!
How do you counter chain mail poison elephants? Flaming camels, of course! Because ridiculous can only be beaten by greater ridiculousness.
The absolute mad lad
Not ridiculous, elephants were the tanks of the ancient world and excellent for mowing down infantry formations.
Historically elephants were used defensively, like mobile forts. Cavalry would refuse to charge massed elephant formations so they were used to rally fleeing infantry and to provide cover for archers. It's strategic value is best depicted in the Indian version of chess where they are the rooks.
@Sam Bacon It's basic survival instinct, seeing things like thick smoke or other animals on fire is usually the sign of a larger fire somewhere, so they run for their lives.
You've gone mad.
"I used to be a peasant like you, until I took an arrow to the knee."
"Then I founded a great empire to last over a century"
"the Lame"
"Then I slaughtered millions as compensation. Also created an empire along the way."
Skyrim everywhere
I used to be a peasant like you, until I took an arrow to the knee and bleed to death cause i don't know first aid XD
timur once got an arrow to the leg, but he kept beign a great adventurer, unlike some others
A bad leg isn't such a problem when you live and fight on horseback I guess.
Timur that bastard stole my sweet roll.
@Shivaji the Great my last name.
@@ooopppp1 salam Khalil jan, khubi?
lol Skyrim
Camels carrying burning hay on their backs against elephants with poisoned tusks, the world was a lost episode of GOT back then
It's almost as if GOT is based entirely upon history or something...
The diffrence is that the tactics in historic battles made sence. While in GoT do defend a stone castle evry soldier run out and they drag out the siege weapons outside the castle that gets insta killed...
I used to love fiction until I read a book on the history of civilizations of the world. Now I look at fiction like.... er, okay.
GOT makers knew that world would watch the ending no matter you put less budget. So they chose the smart move to put little time, effort and money and make huge profits instead.
Mega Whack my dude
Nice work man. Enjoyed this
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Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9.
The remaining descendants of the surviving Timurids - the Chaghataid Turks, still survived in certain parts of Central Asia ( especially Ferghana), nurturing a festering ego ever since their dynasty had fallen into near oblivion.
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Agra’s Mughal riverfront gardens date from the conquest in 1526 of the Chagatai Turkic prince Babur, descendant of Emperor Timur on his father’s side and the Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan on his mother’s.
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I love these mongol and turkic contents lately! Marvelous work!
Though his empire was hardly culturally either
@@ShahStark Oh fuck off, dude
@Veronica Logotheti Timur is a Chagatai Turkic speaking Turkic ruler, who ruled according to the Turco-Mongol and Islamic traditions.
The main language of his army was Turkic, whereas the bureaucracy spoke mainly Persian.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
@Veronica Logotheti You're a fucking moron. The Turks constantly killed and fought against each other, what kind of reason is that? The Gokturks were destroyed by the Turkic Kyrgyz, the Ghaznavids by the hands of the Seljuks, the Safavids and Sheybanis fought each other, the Ottomans destroyed several Turkic beyliks... Please tell me that you are joking.
Veronica Logotheti no they’re not
Just a little clarification about Toktamish. That was arguably the most difficult and glorious win
in Tamerland life. Both armies were almost identical , horse archers
about 100 000 each , and they chase each other for about 1500 miles from the north shores of Black Sea to Central Asia. Crazy.
The first defeat of Tokhtamysh against Timur 1391 battle on the Kondurche River the second defeat of Tokhtamysh against Timur 1395 battle on the banks of the Terek River. So Tokhtamysh was not such a strong enemy
@@Medjed-y3gLosing to Timur doesn’t make you weak. Bayazid the Thunderbolt had defeated a European force before losing to Timur. In one victory against Totkamish Timur bribed the other side. He did the same thing in his victory against Bayazid.
Must have been a crazy sight to see
I guess you can say that the Ilkhanate became an Ill-Khanate.
nicely done.
Too good
I thought of that, too LOL
I'm gonna punch you
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Central Asia is the fabrik of game of thrones
@Oricand nah
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Exactly. Timur was from Barlas tribe, the ex-Mongol tribe, who adopted Turkic language in 14 century. Those Mongols, who went to the West (Golden Horde, Chagatay, Ilkhanate), changed their language to Turkic and Iranic (Hazara) languages of conquered peoples. Mongols were a small minority among Turkic-Iranic masses of Central Asia. Only those Mongols, who stayed in East Asia (modern day China, Mongolia, Russia), saved their Mongol language and pagan religion. Btw later most of Barlas tribe was assimilated by Uzbeks, but in Tajikistan there are still about 5 000 people, who identify themselves as ethnic Barlas. In Tajikistan they are officialy recognized as separate Turkic ethnic group.
Just returned from a month in Uzbekistan and having visited Samarkand your video was very educational. Amazing place steeped in history and a mixture of many cultures! Great job.
Timur against Ming China would have been the bloodiest campaign of ancient world history, that I'm sure of. But still we can name Timur in one breath with the greatest like Alexander and Genghis Khan. His accomplishments are really extraordinary - defeating four empires, and never losing any single battle, while fighting wars at every front of your border. And he valued art, engineering and culture. The Turkic language flourished under his rule - it changed from the status of a simple army language to a language of science and poetry during his reign.
@@yaqubleis6311 Which battles precisely, and did Timur command these battles himself?
Bilgehan Turkus yes the battle with Lurs peoples and Qashqai people
Bilgehan Turkus but he still one the best military commanders of all time
He was great from Alexander and chenghiz khan.
It would be too bloody if he managed to launch an attack on Ming China before passed away in the journey. An aging T-rex vs a prime Spinosaurus in the swamps? Holy Sh*t, I don't know
how many lives would have been lost if this clash did happen!
According to EU4:
Tamerlane: 566 ruler
Zhu Di: 665 ruler
Tamerlane annihilated/humiliated several great powers.
Zhu DI overthrew his nephew and usurped the throne through military campaigns, and launched seven maritime expeditions that reached as far as modern Somali. (Zheng He's voyage.)
But the main battlefield would be inside China.
That's why I called this clash an aging T-rex vs a prime Spinosaurus, but near the Spinosaur's home, swamps.
The Mongolian invasions of Central Asian and the Middle East, then the black plague, followed by Timur. How could anyone expect civilization to come back after that? That part of the world wasn't quite the same after 1200 - 1530 ...
@King Wiwuz IV I consider the Ottomans their own branch. Anatolia was largely spared of the apocalyptic invasions of the Mongols, Timurids, Nader Shah, etc. The center of the Islamic intellectual world was Bagdad, Samarkand, and cities in lower Iran. They were just getting started on things like Optics, and flirting with "theistic atheism" when their civilization effectively got hit by a nuke.
People tend to copy their historical forebears. Generals after Alexander and Caesar tried to emulate their deeds. Ghengis and his ilk spawned a number of historical 'copy cat killers' - among them Timur and Nader Shah (as well as many Turko-Afghan warlords that invaded India). Their brand of cruelty was hard to shake as many warlords that came before tried to emulate them.
Combine this with the fact that Europeans started to circumvent the thousands of years long trade networks around this time - I think that the Portuguese were sailing around Africa in the early 1500s, and Spain found the new world shortly before then.
So -
> Mongols - 1200s
> Black Death - 1300s
> Copy cat killers - 1300 to 1700s
> Loss of the Silk Road - 1500s
> 'Sudden' appearance of European superpowers - 1600s
Central Asia and Iran/Iraq didn't really get breathing room after the 1200s.
Yes, Islam needed reforming. But there is a lot more to it.
King Wiwuz IV Islamic golden age?
@@tmcdowell7977 The Mongols never really ended the muslim dominance in that region, it just made the Arabs a lot weaker and made the Turks the dominant force in the muslim world.
They say that Middle East is still just recovering from the Black Death and the mongols
@@LucasDimoveo Pretty sure those achievement thx to mu'tazilites who were already becoming rare scholars thx to Ashari theology. So no even if Mongols came it was already rotten tree.
This guy deserves his own netflix miniseries.
Would LOVE to watch that. They already did one for Ottoman empire founder.
Fun fact about Tokhtamysh; he was supported in his last stand against Tamerlane by the Grand Duke of Lithuania - Vytautas the Great. Despite that Vytautas did it completely independently from his cousin, king of Poland and officially the "Supreme Grand Duke of Lithuania" Jogaila (Władysław Jagiełło), many Polish knights volunteered to fight in his army. He even got the support of the bitter enemy of Lithuania - the Teutonic Order. Although this campaign ended in a defeat in the battle of Vorskla in 1399, Vytautas offered the former supporters of Tokhtamysh refuge in his realm, which was the main origin of the Tatar community in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
@Hissam Ullah Obviously he survived, how could he offer anyone refuge afterward if he didn't? ;)
Speaking about Grunwald, those refugees from the Golden Horde also fought there, and their descendants kept fighting for the Grand Duchy and the Commonwealth for centuries.
@Garret Phegley Yep!
Abu Troll al cockroachistan sounds like hail of arrows from both sides using the same tactics
@Abu Troll al cockroachistan 450k and 600k armies..? In that age..? I'd cut the numbers by 10, maybe even 20 times. There's no way such armies could be standing at the same time in a war. Napoleon's Grand Army that marched towards Russia on a well infrastructured land was about that size and it was in early 19th century yet so many died due to plain cold. History shouldn't be fooled around with.
@Abu Troll al cockroachistan I'm sorry that i don't believe medieval historians that always overestimated their numbers. Easily debunkable with few simple questions. How much does a horse eat? How much stuff can a horse eat in mountains/steppes/forests/tundras. Mongolias population today is a joke, how could it wield hundreds of thousands of horse archers 8 centuries ago?
My skepticism is coming purely from comparison. In most cases it wins thanks to basic calculation... but i'm open to hear how those monstrous armies were formed, fed, geared and most importantly led by dirt poor medieval countries. It just doesn't make much sense to me.
You are spoiling us my dude.
Temerlan was Kurd..
Same as saladin.
Lol no.
@@ilijaradosevic7445 DJDHHDHS . TEMERLAN WAS FROM CAGATHAY TURKS.
IliJA Radosevic yeah!! Jesus was kurd, Genghis Khan was kurd, Albert Einstein was kurd, Obama was a kurd... 🤦🏻♂️
Gülcan Çınar Trukic not Turkish, Anatolian Turks just speak a Turkic language and are Turkified.
The usual storyline of Iranian history after Islam:
1. Invasion by brutal people, 2. Early destruction of monuments and mass killing and bloodshed of the civilians, 3. The conquerer tribe starts to respect the Iranian/Persian culture, philosophies, language, and political system, 4. Then they become a well-known scientist/poet/artist and a great preacher of Persian/Iranian culture to other nations.
It is magic, that this culture still exits on the face of the earth, its language is still spoken, and its philosophies remained so much influential. Isn't it?
DAS except Iranian culture and DNA kept changing for milleniums. Greeks, Arabs, Turks influenced Iran and vice versa. Pretty much nothing left from ancient Persia these days. Religion, language, ethnicity basically culture is quite different from Achemenid and Sassanid times.
@@S.Solmazturk Nah, it hasnt changed much. Iranians still celebrate nowruz, chaharshanbe suri, shabe yalda and among other holidays. These are all pre-islamic traditions. Language is still persian, there are stil many zoroastrians and persians still exist. Genetically, iran has remained the same since the Iron age too. ua-cam.com/video/PtFXKevtYqs/v-deo.html
@@babakbe1514 I won't waste my time on that video. You are wrong about language and genetics.
bullshit
The Martial Lord of Loyalty Are you sure ? Today there is no difference between an Arab and a Persian
Now do the Goguryeo kingdom. Its capital is my capital, best capital of them all Pyongyang
The Great Leader is wise.
Supreme leader, the sun of ours your capital is the best capital of all capitals ever. 😂
That's so heartless. You have no "Seoul" Kim. 😂
The Hermit Kingdom
Rocket Man!
How does one counter poisoned tusk armored elephants?
WITH FLAMING CAMELS.
6:10 Bayezid spent years exchanging letters with Timur, typically arguing whose manhood is bigger
...
Timur launching a full-scale invasion to Anatolia
That will prove who has the biggest manhood
This is a rumor that western nerds came up with. Stupids
They were both Turks so one of their micro penises being bigger doesn’t mean much really.
Another great episode. love the colorful map details.
@sangers balakrishna
Yeah yeah,keep typing that bullshit,the British spared you from slavery hardly 70 years ago, slaves.
He got that Arrow on his knee much later. During the war, close to Tashkent city. The name of the war is Loy Jangi . His mongol brother in law run away. But Temur won it anyway. And only Temur's enemies called him Temur lang. But we call Him Amir Temur.
Pig timur.The murderer of millions of muslims and non muslims.Destroyed 5 big muslim empires.
@@snowleopard3470 Timur is Turk
He got the arrow in Seistan (afganistan)
@@snowleopard3470 go cry about it. Show me one king or emperor who didn't invade or kill anyone. Its just how it was for kings and rulers
About Timur's life will learn a long time, it will not end. Why? That's why he was greatest, now is his name great and in the future will be the greatest person of all time.
Ruy Gonzales De Clavijo, a Spanish nobleman who went to the palace of Timur to Samarkand as ambassador, stated in his book The Life of Timur & Travels from Kadiz to Samarkand, that Timur was descended from a noble generation of Turk immigrants who boasted of their lineage. [14] While Richard Bulliet says that Barlas has nothing to do with Mongols,[15] Rene Grousset [16] states that Timur's ancestry is based on Genghis in the books written in his time, whereas Timur is not related to Mongols and says that Timur is Turk..
Timur:We are Melik of Turan, Amir of Turkestan. We are sons of Turk. I am the Chieftain of the oldest and greatest nation!
Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi/Zafarnama
...emirs. Sensing an opportu- nity, Timur (also known in English as Tamerlane), the leader of the Chagatai Turks, moved against Syria. In the closing decades of the fourteenth century Timur had created an empire that included much of Central Asia, Iran, and Iraq. Though Timur was not him- self a Mongol,...
(pp. 84-107) Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography Princeton University Press (2018)
It is true that Barlas is identical with Barulas in the list of the Turkish nirqbn tribes, see Rashld al-dln, ed. Berezin, vii, 265*
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1954), pp. 600-602
...Barlas tribe of Central Asia was largely of Turkic origin with mixed Mongolian ancestry.
From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia
Adil Hussain Khan
Indiana University Press (2015)
TAMERLANE (1336-1405). Turkic chieftain and conqueror. He was not Mongol, but sought to trace Mongol connections through his wife's ancestors.
The A to Z of the Mongol World Empire
Amir Tîmûr-i-lang, also known as Tamerlane, was a Barlâs Turk of a noble family. By the time he was born, however, his family had fallen on hard times and lived by banditry.
indicmandala.com/zafar-nama/
Who were the Timurids?
Ulugh Beg was the grandson of Timur, known in the west as Tamerlane, or 'Timur the Lame', due to a leg injury sustained in battle. Originally the ruler of a small Turkish tribe, Timur conquered the whole of Iran and Central Asia to create the Timurid Empire.
www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/MeHtWABVSaaHNHl4ndc4rQ
A comprehensive history of Iran in the early fifteenth century, under the Timurids, a Turkic dynasty of nomadic origin.
www.amazon.com/Politics-Religion-Timurid-Cambridge-Civilization/dp/0521865476
His father was from the Turkish stock, probably also descended from the same Turkish tribes who accompanied the Mongol warriors in their conquest of Transoxiana and then settled in the new territory.
iranologie.com/the-history-page/timurids/
Timur founded Timurids dynasty during the late 14th century. He was a Turk from Transoxiana nomads and son of a warrior.
www.destinationiran.com/history-timurids-invaders-iran.htm
Temür and his followers were Turks loyal to the Mongol tradition, but they were also Muslim and well acquainted with Perso-Islamic culture.
oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-10
One of the Turkish tribes was the Barlas, a member of which, Timur the son of Taraghay, was to prove himself an extremely adept politician and warrior, rising to power in the third quarter of the 14th century as Mongol authority waned ( see Timurid , §II, A).
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Timur or Tamurlane, the fourteenthcentury Turkic ( see Turko-Mongol Mythology ) warrior-king and founder of the Timurid...
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Timur Lenk, the Turcic conqueror invaded India in 1398.
oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t236/e0931
Asian regions and cities during the Mughal Empire. The Mughal Empire dates from 1526 when Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur ( 1483-1530 ), the Turco-Mongol ruler of Kabul, invaded northern India and declared himself its emperor. He based his imperious claim on the brief conquest of Delhi in 1398 by his distant Turkish ancestor Timur ( aka Tamerlane , 1336-1405 ), conqueror of Central Asia.
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The Timurid dynasty was founded in 1370 by the Turkic warlord Temür, usually known in the west as Tamerlane (Temür the lame).
oxfordre.com/asianhistory/oso/viewentry/10.1093$002facrefore$002f9780190277727.001.0001$002facrefore-9780190277727-e-10
A Central Asian (see Central Asian Mythology) epic cycle about the conquests of Timur or Tamurlane, the fourteenthcentury Turkic) warrior-king and founder of the Timurid dynasty.
www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803104707159
Tamerlane (Timur-i Lang, Timur the Lame) (1336-1405) Outstanding political and military tactician;
rallied tribal support in the region east of the Ferghana Valley, and established a Turkic dynasty based on Samarkand and ...
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Timur was not a Mongol himself, but from the Turkic Barlas tribe in Transoxania, now Uzbekistan.
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A Timurid is one of his descendants; a member of the Turkic dynasty founded by him, which ruled in central Asia until the 16th century.
www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803104707142
The founder, Timur Leng, was a Chagatai Turk of the Barlas tribe in the region of Kish, Western Turkestan.
www.iis.ac.uk/encyclopaedia-articles/timurids
The Timurid Empire was a powerful, conquest-driven empire that devolved into disunited dynasties more noted for artistic than political endeavors. Tamerlane (Timur Lang) (1336-1405) was not a Mongol but emerged out of the chaos of post-Mongol Turkistan.
www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/empires-timurid
Although his people (Turks), the various lineages of the Barlas, lived a pastoral life and became nomads, they existed in close proximity to sedentary people and sedentary culture, even while antagonistic to it.
www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/empires-timurid
Descended from Turkish (not Mongol) stock no longer migratory, Timur began his career with an attempt to free his native Transoxania.
www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/timur-tamerlane
In 1398 Timur, the Turkic warrior from Central Asia(known in the West as Tamerlane)
www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/sultanate-painting
Tamerlane is Marozzi's biography of the great fourteenth-century Turkic conqueror Timur
www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/marozzi-justin-1970
Timur (Tamerlane), a Muslim Turkic leader
www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/world-events-selected-occurrences-outside-west-africa
After the Mongol Dynasty of the Il-Khans, Persia was ruled for a short period (c.1380-1469) by timur (Tamerlane) and his successors. These Central-Asian Turkish rulers, with their capitals of Samarqand or Herat, were great patrons of the arts and literature.
www.encyclopedia.com/history/asia-and-africa/ancient-history-middle-east/persia
Timur was born around 1336 in Transoxania near Kesh - later known as Shahrisabz - in the Kashka Darya region of what is today the Republic of Uzbekistan. He was a Turk of the Barlas tribe; this tribe, like many others, boasted a Mongol name and ancestry, but for all practical purposes it was Turkic.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-inner-asia/timur-and-the-timurids/EDCB0CBC613DC35ED74785C0DD97EB62
Timur was born in Kesh, near Samarkand, Transoxania (now in Uzbekistan), in 1336. He was a member of the Turkic Barlas clan of Mongols.
kids.britannica.com/students/article/Timur/277364
Actual power lay in the hands of the amir Timur (Tamerlane, 1336-1405) who continued the Chagatai rule although he was not a Mongol himself.
www.britannica.com/place/Mongol-empire/Mongol-empires-in-central-Asia
Timur (Tamerlane) was a Turk, not a Mongol, but he aimed to restore Mongol power.
www.britannica.com/topic/Islamic-world/Conversion-of-Mongols-to-Islam
The dynasty was founded by a Chagatai Turkic prince named Bābur (reigned 1526-30), who was descended from the Turkic conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) on his father’s side and from Chagatai, second son of the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, on his mother’s side.
www.britannica.com/topic/Mughal-dynasty
Timurid dynasty, (fl. 15th-16th century CE), dynasty of Turkic-Mongol origin descended from the conqueror Timur(Tamerlane).
www.britannica.com/topic/Timurid-dynasty
Although claiming to descend distantly, and by his mother, from Chingiz khān (Genghis khān), Bāber, the founder in India of the Mughal dynasty, was a Chaghātai Turk, who, through his father, was descended from Timūr-Lang (Tamerlan), Turkish Barlās reigning in Samarkand at the end of the 14th century and who invaded India in 1398.
www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/moghols/
www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/57819?position=0
Keep up the great work 👌👌
Only found your channel not long ago. Been watching the older video you made while catching up with the new ones. Great to see these on Central Asia, a part of the world that is very often forgotten or ignored. So much history in the region to be explored.
Timur wasnt a Mongol but he married with a mongol woman. He was Uzbek Turk.
He was from House of Chenghis Khan
Темур не был узбеком,он Чингизид запомните,и не надо сочинять
Hahahah. He was mongol. He was from one of mongolian tribes. In fact, his spirit comes down to one of cousins who is shaman and direct descedent of him
Timur borned Barlas clan of Mongolia . 14th century doesn't exist Uzbekistan (their descendant is kipchak and before 2000 year they was under control Hunnu mongol empire ).Uzbekistan was Oirad Mongol territory 17th century after Oirad massacre they moved to this place
Sizning mog’ul yeringi ulan batarda Amir Temur musulmon edi mog’ullar kabi madaniyatsiz emas edi
Timur was from Barlas tribe, the ex-Mongol tribe, who adopted Turkic language in 14 century. Those Mongols, who went to the West (Golden Horde, Chagatay, Ilkhanate), changed their language to Turkic and Iranic (Hazara) languages of conquered peoples. Mongols were a small minority among Turkic-Iranic masses of Central Asia. Only those Mongols, who stayed in East Asia (modern day China, Mongolia, Russia), saved their Mongol language and pagan religion. Btw later most of Barlas tribe was assimilated by Uzbeks, but in Tajikistan there are still about 5 000 people, who identify themselves as ethnic Barlas. In Tajikistan they are officialy recognized as separate Turkic ethnic group.
timur is not mongol but he want to be mongol because of genghiz khan.
@@i_am_C_Plus_Plus_Developer read some book. He is from Barlas tribe. In Mongolian secret history Barlas clan was mentioned as mongolian.
@@i_am_C_Plus_Plus_Developer yes timur was the descendent of mongol but those Mongols were Muslim
@@bilguunmongol4542He married Mongol girl to become royal. He is Turkic.
Language means something btw.
The inhabitants of Chagatai Ulus and Jochi Ulus were originally Turks. The Turks have such tribes as Barlas, Kongrats, Mangyts, Kipchaks, etc. because the Turks and Mongols come from Altai, they are related peoples like the Germans and the British.
Ottoman Enpire in Bayezid's rule: why do i hear boss music
@@scourgeofgodattila3827 Turkified Mongolian
Timur Türktü 🤦♂️
Timur and Bayezid are both Turks, out of all rivals Timur only respected Bayezid.. we see Timur as our ancestor too
@@Illusionz-de2mo Timur was a Turkic
Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9.
dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/54413/33337527-MIT.pdf?sequence=2
timur was a turk lmao. y'all are pathetic fr 🤣😂😭
One of your best vids so far! Keep it up.
Thanks Tyson! :)
Imagine if he had faced Hongwu and Yongle like he was supposed to do, it would have been one of the greatest confrontation and probably the biggest of the period
That was going to be is big challenge
Timur was from Turk-Mongol tribe which is Uzbekian tribe at the moment.
He had book written. In that book, he said "I am kingdom of Turon and king of Turkistan, we are main generation of Turks"
He was Turk in reality, but he was Mongol in miths and legend, because more writers wanted him to depend on Chingizxon.
no lol, Timur never said that.
@@refl1x362
No, he said. Because, we learn his book (Temur tuzuklari)
Do you know his grandchild Ulughbek. We read his book (Tõrt ulus tarixi) without translation. Because he wrote and spoke in Chigatay turk language (that our old language, uzbek language is generation of chigatay language)
So, they wrote and spoke in turkic. They were turkic, not mongolic or persian.
@@dilkusho1929 I agree with you
@@refl1x362 That's exactly what he said!! The fact that you do not know about these words of Timur does not mean that he did not say these words! He stated that they are the main generation of Turks in his book "Temur tuzuklari ". This is a fact.
@@dilkusho1929 Actually Timur spoke, both Chagatai and Mongolian.
Can you do a video about Yemen's ancient kingdoms?
Al Methhiji insha’Allah
This
Yes, I too would like to know more about them !
Yeah definitely, as Yemen is really underrated in history
Yemen, ass end of the Arab world. Then as now
Great video! You're a great inspiration for my new channel. Great video once again! 😊
Truly a great summary of the complicated history during the conquests of Tamerlane and his heirs.
Good video. I love your animation style man!
Great video! This is best brief summary of Tamerlane’s life and legacy that I’ve seen!
Tamerlane indirectly contributed to the rise of Muscovy by ravaging the lands of the Golden Horde to the north of his empire in the 1390s.
He completely ravaged northern India.
He also delayed the conquest of Constantinople by 50 years by defeating the Ottomans at the Battle of Ankara.
Overall, Tamerlane had an enormous impact on history.
Just imagine what if he had died few years later...we would have come to know if temur succeeded in defeating the ming dynasty or not...
He ravaged and pillaged the islamic world
@@nedimduman2484not really during his time Scientific feat in Islamic state occured 2 second time since the golden age of Islam,they had big scientific successes especially in the spheres of astronomy,math, literature(btw it was Timur in whose time Turkic language was considered as literature language and high elite language) and architecture. Guess what, Buildings built by Timur and his descendants(who built by using Timur's style) are regarded as most valuable and most beautiful constructions(among them there is one of the 7 wonders)
@@nedimduman2484Timur is muslim and Türk
I love your maps. So easy to interpret yet detailed.
1:27 Frickin chaos worshippers ruined the chagatai khanate. Don't do heresy, kids.
Yes inquisitor, this khanate right here
Haha I saw that too and fucking lol'd. Although I suspect Tamerlane had the nails...
Awesome video Epimetheus, I love your art style and your maps are beautiful. Keep up the fantastic history content.
I became fascinated by this historical figure ever since I studied the play "Tamburlaine" by Christopher Marlowe(Shakespeare's contemporary) and a little later I discovered the stunning opera "Tamerlano" by George Frederick Handel the eighteenth century Anglo-German composer who wrote operas in Italian.There are also many operas about Timur's great adversary the Ottoman sultan Bajazet -notably by Vivaldi and Gasparini..The story that Timur carried Bajazet around in a cage is however fictional.
Timur's soldiers got no regular salary--they earned what they could loot! (Great motivation...)
@Shamil Najar They can, becuse they rule the world :-)
In contrast to present day corporates who takes away all the loot and leave pennies for employees...just kidding
That was standard for invaders.
as every nomadic warriors
Uhm. Same in medieval west. And mid-roman republic. And in ancient greece. How do you guys don't know YOUR OWN HISTORY?
Thank you for a beautiful video! Very console but informative
Tamerlane is a special pickle
I'd been waiting for coverage of Tamerlane!
First!
This Video will be also great, thanks for the effort:)
He said with his own words: “I am the great leader of Turan and the greatest nation on world, Turks! I am Turk like my father.”
So are modern day Turks related to Mongols? Could you please explain that to me? I am really messed up with this.
@@mfoteinos No, we aren't related and we weren't either. Our old culture and religion was just similar. Actually it was almost same but we are totally different. They are not Turk and we are not Mongol. :)
@@ardabeyoglu9755 so the ancestors of modern day Turks lived in the Mongol steps but they are not Mongols. Correct?
@@mfoteinos yes it is really puzzling. First Turks appeared on south siberia around Altai mountains after that they come south (chinese border) and today's mongolia. Turks and mongols doesnt have anything common but nomad life style. Roughly!(very roughly) we separate turks in to two groups 1- khipchak (today's kazakhistan, kirgyizistan, uzbekistan mainly this branch) also Timur is probably uzbek(i dont know for sure)
2-oughuz (today's turkey, azerbeijan, turkmenistan )
History of central asia is very difficult to understand. Good luck with that
@@cagriozkan1936 thanks a lot for that info. Another question. What's the difference between seljuk turks and ottoman turks? Is there a difference in ethnicity or just a different name?
Thanks. Greetings from Greece.
Insane story, thanks for the history lesson !
Timur, created one of the largest, yet short-lived realms that ever existed in Central Asia. He was an unscrupulous conqueror who had 100s of thousands of people murdered in the conquered territories and cities, including the Sultanate of Delhi, the Kingdom of Georgia, in Persia and elsewhere, and merciless defeated. Wherever he appeared he separated the light from the shadows. Thus, in the conquest of Isfahan in 1387 AD in Persia 28 skull towers were counted on one city side according to Hafiz-i Abru, so that one can expect a death toll of 70,000. In the town of Isfizar, he had 2,000 people buried alive. He was the most cruel Turco-Mongol butcher of the history with several million victims, strangulating, among others, 100,000 Hindus in Delhi in 1398 AD, the murder of 90,000 Arabs in Baghdad in 1401 AD, and the massive battles between 100 of thousands of Turks and Mongols and others characterize his rule as one of the darkest eras in HUMAN history on the Eurasian continent.
Don't bluff bro u better read the books about Hazrat Timur well he never became the cruel person he was muslim nd we muslims never hurt anybody Hazrat Timur conquered so many places but he didn't kill people intentionally he had reasons for this as i told u better read well
Taimur was a bloody evil king. His name will go down in history as one of the most cruel evil bastards of all time. He was a Muslim in name only. I hope he rots in his grave for all the evil deeds
You better ask Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala for forgiveness for you and your beloved ones instead of hoping someone having offended in the grave what you have done for this ummah by today nothing right!? And you are talking only shit
Buddy u gotta read history a bit more cautious cuz Timurids empire actually lasted around 468 years, that's almost 5 centuries,darkest era was when mongols conquered whole Asia devastating Muslims scientific treasure, ending civilisations.Meanwhile during Timurids era scientific feat again happened in Islamic state under Ulugʻbek's rule especially in the fields of astronomy,math, literature and architecture. Buildings constructed by Timur and His descendants still standing from central Asia to indian subcontinent,some of them being one of the most valuable and beautiful buildings ever built(7 wonders ). Apart from all that,they were Timurids who exceedee china in economy being the wealthiest empire of its time.
In general case Timur's influence was massive and the one who made Moscow rid of golden horde was Timur as a result one of the biggest empires origunated a bit later Timur's death.
@@shohrukhmamatkulov1829 😄😄
Truly fine and knowledgable video,, wonderful narration with historical facts,,, first time I am watching such a knowledgable video as I personally loved TAMERLANE since my childhood I have reading every book written on him,, I love notorious American Historian HEROLD LAMB whose books on history are world best so far,,, i.have a collection of his all books especially about Tamerlane being my most favourite character in history. I have had read first book at age of 10 written by Herold Lamb in 1968 , since then I am reading every book about Tamerlane,,,now into 50s living in USA still loves this great Conqueror of the world,,the last one who tried to conquer the world through SWORD. great uploading
Thanks
Well done on depicting the Aral Sea as it was back then. The detail in your maps are amazing.
6:40 Just a small correction, the area labeled the Tibetan Empire should be called the Tibetan Kingdoms. It was not unified and imperialistic like the original Tibetan Empire which fell in the ninth century, but was actually made of several kingdoms who fought each other.
Great work Epimetheus!
Great video. Thank you Sir.
„Typically insulting eachothers manliness“ hahaha, classic
One striking aspect of him was when I read the tuzuk I timuri was whenever the situation was dire and hopeless, a good news arrived . And he went on his knees “ to thank god immediately” . Time and again he mentions it . Remember people “ whatever you are thankful for , multiples “
Would love it if you covered the Indian subcontinent. Difficult to find any videos let alone videos in English. Would really like to know more about the pala dynasty.
Yes most of the video on the indian subcontinent are indian and horribly biased
@@ShahjahanMasood yes, many videos about Indian history are extremely biased and in favour of invaders.
He did a video on Chhatrapati Shivaji
Oh look. I ask for a video on India and Hindus and Muslims already arguing.
The history of this part of the globe is often unknown (at least by me!) ... A new very interesting video , map and animations are beautiful!👌
Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9.
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I read an ancient book in spanish called ¨Embasy to Timerland¨ that describes the travel from Castilla to Shamarkanda of 3 Castilla King to Timur and its written in old spanish but its a beautiful tale
The Timurids spoke in a Chagatay-Turkic language or Old-Uzbek! The Uzbeks were their heirs as they also founded the Mughal empire in India!
his name was timur which is a turkic name timur means iron in turkic languages and was considered holy for the turkic people back then
mughal false. babur empire true
@@turkmapping130 Babur was Timur's generation
I don't think so. Because mughals are another dynasty.
@@obidkhujayorovofficial well most princes married moghul dignitaries' daughters at that time so they can have power he was related to moghuls on his mother side but his father was Timur's son or grandson
Those Khanates were Turko-Mongolic, but more Turkish than Mongolian.
Timur referred to himself in many letters as a Turk.
No Timur never sent that letter, its a propaganda by the Turkish government
Very well researched and presented.. thanks for sharing...!!!
Timur was buried in an elaborate tomb in Samarkand, and the legend was that there'd be a curse on whoever disturbed his bones. Five centuries later, Soviet archaeologists opened up the tomb--in 1941, shortly before the devastating Nazi invasion!
@James Matthews it was a huge insult. not only did they violated a burial but also took the fucking head of the decased. such a fuckers...
The Timurids , perhaps the most glorious of all dynasties originat- ing from East Iran, succeeded the Mongols.These were Turkic natives of Transoxiana who, despite initial successes in West Asia.
“General Conclusions and Postscript.” ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity, by Khodadad Rezakhani, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2017, pp. 185-193.
Emergence of Timur Lenk (Tamerlane) a Turk who rose in the Mongol service in Transaxonia to conquer much of central and western asia.
RUTHVEN, M., & NANJI, A. (2004). Historical atlas of Islam. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press. pp. 196
The cen- tral icon of the Uzbek nation-building campaign was the fourteenth-century Turkic conqueror Amir Timur, known in the West as Tamerlane.
“Border and Post-Soviet Predicament.” Under Solomon's Throne: Uzbek Visions of Renewal in Osh, by MORGAN Y. LIU, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2012, pp. 43-73.
Much like the push of the Huns two centuries prior, and, later, of the Mongols and Timurid Turks
“The Emergence of Islam.” War and Religion: Europe and the Mediterranean from the First through the Twenty-First Centuries, by Arnaud Blin, 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2019, pp. 79-113.
Timur, if one wants to characterise him aptly, was a Turkish aristo- crat of Central Asian origin, in essence a military man but not lacking either in cultural interests or intellectual refinement.
Roemer, H. (1986). TĪMŪR IN IRAN. In P. Jackson & L. Lockhart (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Iran (The Cambridge History of Iran, pp. 42-97). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521200943.003
Temür (T.): Turkic conquerer, (d.1405) timar (Per.) Ottoman land grant given in exchange for military service; similar to the Mughal jagir, q.v. Timurids: descendants of Temür, otherwise known in Persian as Timür-i leng or in English as “Timür the Lame” (Tamerlane) türbe (Ar.)
Dale, S. (2009). Glossary. In The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals (New Approaches to Asian History, pp. 293-298). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511818646.013
Descent from the Central Asian rulers, Chinggis Qan and Temür, legitimized the Mughals, and originally Central Asian Turkic traditions comprised a common heritage of rulers in all three empires. Most Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal monarchs also patronized common literary and artistic cultures that were at least partly secular, and which especially pious individuals sometimes criticized for that reason.
Dale, S. (2009). Introduction. In The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals (New Approaches to Asian History, pp. 1-9). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511818646.003
Once again the invasion came from central Asia; this time it was Tamerlane, a Barlas Turk, who set up a new empire with Samarqand as his capital. Tamerlane is perhaps the greatest conqueror Asia has ever produced. The name Tamerlane, by which he is known to Europe, is derived from his nickname Timur-i-Lang or c The Lame Timur', for he was wounded in the foot in a minor encounter in Afghanistan. He was born in 13 3 5, the son of a chief of a Turkish tribe.
Elgood, C. (2010). The Empire of Tamerlane. In A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate: From the Earliest Times Until the Year A.D. 1932 (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine, pp. 324-347). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511710766.013
He was a Turk of the Barlas tribe; this tribe, like many others, boasted a Mongol name and ancestry, but for all prac- tical purposes it was Turkic. Turki was thus Timur’s mother tongue, although he may have known some Persian from the cultural milieu in which he lived; he almost certainly knew no Mongolian, though Mongol terminology had not quite disappeared from administrative documents and coins.
Soucek, S. (2000). Timur and the Timurids. In A History of Inner Asia (pp. 123-143). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511991523.011
The Timurid dynasty was founded in 1370 by the Turkic warlord Temür, usually known in the west as Tamerlane (Temür the lame).
Temür and his followers were Turks loyal to the Mongol tradition, but they were also Muslim and well acquainted with Perso-Islamic culture.
Forbes Manz, B. (2018, April 26). Tamerlane and the Timurids. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History.
Tamerlane (Timur-i Lang, Timur the Lame) (1336-1405) Outstanding political and military tactician;
rallied tribal support in the region east of the Ferghana Valley, and established a Turkic dynasty based on Samarkand
2010). Tamerlane. In The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. : Oxford University Press.
Eastern Turkic Timurids and the Western Turkic Oghuz of the Ottoman Empire actually dated to the earliest days
Schluessel, Eric T. 2016. The Muslim Emperor of China: Everyday Politics in Colonial Xinjiang, 1877-1933. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9.
The remaining descendants of the surviving Timurids - the Chaghataid Turks, still survived in certain parts of Central Asia ( especially Ferghana), nurturing a festering ego ever since their dynasty had fallen into near oblivion.
Timurid central Asia and Mughal India : some correlations regarding urban design concepts and the typology of the Muslim house
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995.
Once again the invasion came from central Asia; this time it was Tamerlane, a Barlas Turk, who set up a new empire with Samarqand as his capital. Tamerlane is perhaps the greatest conqueror Asia has ever produced. The name Tamerlane, by which he is known to Europe, is derived from his nickname Timur-i-Lang or c The Lame Timur', for he was wounded in the foot in a minor encounter in Afghanistan. He was born in 13 3 5, the son of a chief of a Turkish tribe.
Elgood, C. (2010). The Empire of Tamerlane. In A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate: From the Earliest Times Until the Year A.D. 1932(Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine, pp. 324-347). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511710766.013
"Belonging to a minor military family, and of Turkish origin, Timur was born in Transoxiana (present-day Uzbekistan) in the fourteenth century. He rose to prominence in the service of the local Mongol ruler, claimed to be descended from Chingiz-Khan, and defeated all competitors." Massoume Price (2005). Iran's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook. ABC-CLIO. p. 56.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001-2005. "Tamerlane, c.1336-1405, Turkic conqueror, b. Kesh, near Samarkand. He is also called Timur Leng (Faisal R.).
Gérard Chaliand, Nomadic Empires: From Mongolia to the Danube translated by A.M. Berrett, Transaction Publishers, 2004. translated by A.M. Berrett. Transaction Publishers, p.75. ISBN 0-7658-0204-X. Limited preview at Google Books. p. 75., ISBN 0-7658-0204-X, p.75., "Timur Leng (Tamerlane) Timur, known as the lame (1336-1405) was a Muslim Turk. He aspired to recreate the empire of his ancestors. He was a military genius who loved to play chess in his spare time to improve his military tactics and skill. And although he wielded absolute power, he never called himself more than an emir.", "Timur Leng (Tamerlane) Timur, known as the lame (1336-1405) was a Muslim Turk from the Ulus of Chagatai who saw himself as Genghis Khan's heir."
^ Encyclopædia Britannica, "Timurid Dynasty", Online Academic Edition, 2007. (Quotation:...Turkic dynasty descended from the conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), renowned for its brilliant revival of artistic and intellectual life in Iran and Central Asia....Trading and artistic communities were brought into the capital city of Herat, where a library was founded, and the capital became the centre of a renewed and artistically brilliant Persian culture...)
Barlas tribe of Central Asia was largely of Turkic origin with mixed Mongolian ancestry
“Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani before Prophethood.” From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia, by Adil Hussain Khan, Indiana University Press, 2015, pp. 21-41.
Барласы это Казахские племена
Каждым исследователь ищет факты в угоду своей страны
You should do a video on Nader Shah
thats the spirit.
That would be amazing
And then one of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Sikh Empire, maybe one of mahmud of ghazni
Nadir Shah admired Timur, and wanted to be like him. He also invaded Delhi and massacred the populace of Delhi even after surrender on some flimsy pretext just like Timur.
Diljale that bullshit Nader shah never like Timur
Nice video!
I went to Torkhum, its a border town between Pakistan and Afghanistan. There I saw a chamber on a hill. This chamber was built by Timur to punish people. It was a like a meat-grounding machine. People would be thrown from the top and pieces would be collected at the bottom of a hill in that chamber. Many sharp cutting tools and gravity would do the rest of the job.
Timur is an UZBEK TURK WHO MARRIED IN THE FAMILY OF CENGIZ KHAN !
Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9.
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Temur not mugul
Темур Казахский -турок,воруете историю Казахстана ,не хорошо,ещё говорите Аллах,не стыдно
Read history not propaganda Timur burned Barca clan of Mongolia
History remembers the super villains. The good people are not so lucky.
Each life they are responsible for taking further cements their legacy.
100% right bro. Supervillains get in bold letters only. Gentle ruling kings could neither invade nor conquer.
You're looking at it wrong.
Super villains are remembered as an example of who *not* to be. Good people are remembered as examples of who to emulate. Everyone dies, empires crumble, but bad people are remembered as an example of the people to watch out for in the future.
We're here to learn from our history, not to repeat its mistakes.
@@bry756 bro, I admire your positivity but take a look at the rest of the comment section
It's a villain, for you.
It is a hero, for us.
(Also, he's not an evil guy. It's just western propaganda)
Kill a man your are a murderer, kill a million you are a king.
Uzbekistan #1 ül💪🐺🇺🇿
Wait, are you uzbek?
Timur was racist against Turks, go read his letters to bayezid. His descendant Mirza dughlat wrote the book tarikh e Rashdi in which he calls uzbeks the abominable race. Your real king is shaybani whos head was turned into a drinking cup for Babur.
@@ben-ben2366 Timur himself is someone who has both Turkish and Mongolian roots, but it has nothing to do with Mongolia, and this is a fact. Timur is someone who even Ibn Khaldun, who has Turkic-Iranian characteristics in terms of language and culture, referred to as a Turk in his work. It is true that Timur fought the Ottoman Turks, but he took from the Ottomans. It should not be forgotten that Timur fought a lot with the Mongols, the most obvious example being the Golden Horde and the Tokhtamysh Khan incident. He also fought a lot with the Persians, the most obvious example being the Isfahan incident :)
@@ben-ben2366By the way, Babür Shah wrote her most important work, Babûrnâme, in her native language, Chagatai Turkish.
@MuhteşemYüzyıl_Edit@MuhteşemYüzyıl_Edit You turkifed anatolian rat, there is nothing Turkish about Timur. He was mongol barlas on both sides of his family, not a single family member of his was Turkic. It's always the least turkic ones like y
dogs from anakra that have the biggest mouth about stealing others history. Go read how Timurs letters to Bayezid on how he called Turkish people uncivilised and from a lowly origin, go read mirza dughat how he called turkic groups like Uzbeks the abominable race, maybe you'll learn some real turkic history.
and from him came Babur who ruled India after
And after that came marathas who fucked mughals.
Tanju pro Indian freedom fighters fucked Britain.
1857 me hamne 4 lakh firagiyo ki bali chadai isai dharma ko nahi apnya
@Tanju Pro Then BHAGAT Singh, Subhash Chandra Bose Fucked Britain, that Entire British Indian NAVAL, AIRFORCE Made Britain Commander to Follow the rule..
@@puchipoo7845 well that's Nazi german fucked Britain or elso India would never get freedom
This guy knows the symbol of Chaos. Better call the Inquisition
Timur is turkic his name means iron ( also in mongolian) he was about to conquer china but he passed away, his descendants found the mughal empire ( babur empire), which was a Turkic empire :)
No timur muslim mongol descendent bro
Каждый националист ищет факты в угоду своей страны
Темур Чингизид вот так правильно ,врать не хорошо
Are we really going to gloss over the fact that he set camels on fire to combat armored elephants with poisoned tusks? And people say history is boring... Seriously, that's fucking metal as fuck!
Thank you for this amazing video! I've always had a hard time keeping Tamerlane's story straight in my head--but you really did a good job centering the map, showing his conquests, and getting down to the nitty gritty of what he did and how he did it, as well as his descendants. You've made me a huge fan of one of history's greatest butchers and genociders! Thank you!
*Fun Fact: the scenes depicting Tamerlane* near the end of the video are actually *from a Russian bank commercial!*
Bank Imperial (Банк Империал) randomly depicts episodes of Russian history in their publicities.
Da fuck thats weird :D
Thanks man. I was searching this comment to know about last scene.
How do you know this
The name of Amir Timur used to strike terror into the hearts of all who heard it, but now few outside of central Asia have even heard of one of the most successful conquerors in history, and a symbol of the legacy of the Mongols overshadowed only by Genghis Khan. Thank you for making this video, Timurid history really deserves more attention than it gets.
Also your art is getting better with every video, it really adds to the atmosphere and appeal.
Did Alexander or chengiz even in old age conquered any countries? But this was Timur 80 years old moved to Conquered China. But he died in ming China boundary. He did not lost any battle. He fought from 20 to 80 age. Never taken rest. Other side chinghiz conquered most of his land by his millatory generals. His empire exceeded by his sons. He is not famous in the world because he was Muslim. And people does not interest him
Berke Khan ???
@@tahirzaman9538
Like Berke Khan/sultan beybarse/Khalid IBN Al walid
Fortunately Muslims are wining some plateform in the media "some"
I love your usage of graphics
Remember studying him during Kazakh history lessons. Temir means iron in Kazakh. Currently, Temirlan and Tamerlan are two incredibly widespread names among all Kazakhs
Temir means iron in izbek too but We call him as Temur not as Temir
Timur also means iron in modern Turkish.
But we call iron "demir" and timur is completely different word. It still carries the meaning of iron, but since demir is a separate word, only name feature of timur remains.
@erkanyldz4893 yes, temir is iron on Kazakh also
@@arctan-k But now we call iron "demir" and the word timur(temir) exists only as a name.
Hello from Samarkand🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿
hello from Delhi
@@takshashila2995 you guys should become friends
leo messi, how is the economy like over there? Is it doing well?
The Martial Lord of Loyalty, no comment
Excellent work, thank you. May you find much wealth and happiness
Great video but you didnt mention the Timurid victory over the Mamlukes, Timurid raid in Russia, Golden Horde became subject and it was the Kara Koyunlu and Ak Koyunlu which pushed the Timurids from west instead of the Safavids.
Funfact: when his body was found (in the 1900's), it said something along the lines of "whomsoever finds my tomb shall unleash an invader worse thsn i" (as I remember anyway) and three days later, Hitler invaded Soviet Russia via operation barborossa (?) So that's kind of a scary coincidence.
But Hitler's forces got fucked so badly in the Eastern front. Well, they had killed many Russian tho
Opening of Timur's Tomb Happened in June 22nd, 1941
Wonderful overview! Thanks.
Epimetheus, can you please make a video on the history of Cambodia. In that video, please don't forget to mention Prey Nokor.
Yes, history of *Cambodia* please!
Yes
“Timur “ meanning
( Turkic: Demir) (English : İron )
Our ancestor , He not lose any war , Won 80 Battle.
He Speaking Caghatai Turkic
And he Said “ We are Melik-i ( Ruler) of Turan , Emir-i(Leader) of Turkestan “
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Hakan BEY 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 go read book kiddo
Hakan BEY The rulers of Göktürk were Iranic Saka-Wusun Origin form the Ashina Tribe not Turkic 🤣🤣 Turkic history is joke according to H. W. Haussig, S. G. Klyashtorny, A. N. Bernstamm, C. V. Findley,] D.G. Savinov, S. P. Guschin, Rona-Tas, and R. N. Frye.
Chinese Primary Sources: Book of Sui , Book Of Zhou, History Of The Northern Dynasties. Turkic history is big joke
@@yaqubleis6311 😂😂😂😂😂
You are right bro.I am As a generation of temur, I agree with you. Turan
super mood super kayfiyat 🇹🇷🇹🇷❤️❤️🐺🐺🐺
We are son’s of Temur !
We are Son’s of Turk !
Hajra Turan !
Hedef Turan !
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thanks for making the video, we uzbeks have always been proud of our great king AMIR TEMUR. His motto was (KUCH ADOLATDADUR) meaning: the power is in justice, i did not know that he was infamous for his savage destructions
Lol he is mongolian
Timur is a Karluk Turk, he has never used the title of "khan" to show that he is not a Mongolian, he has chosen the nickname Emir for himself, a great military genius Emir Timur
Ahahahahah no Temur hated the Turks and Persians most of all, for which he brutally dealt with them, and he loved the Mongols most of all, and therefore tried to revive the Mongol great power
He could not be called a khan because he did not have Genghisid blood to have such power, he married a Mongol princess
The troops of Tamerlane are mostly Kalmaks, Sarts (Chagatai), Tatars, but not the Tatars of modern Tatarstan, but the Tatars Mongols, in ancient Russia, Russians called all foreigners Tatars, even Chechens
Tatars because the troops of Genghis Khan were compared with the hellish dogs of hell tartar I think you heard about such a legend from this word and the name tat went
Modern Tatars are Chuvashs who adopted everything from the Bashkirs language culture modern Tatars Europeans
I swear these guys became the Total War equivalent of the Tyrannids in my game of Medieval 2, didn't help that i was also playing HRE lol.
Most underrated empire in the history...
Please more video about this region. Tell me more about uzbek Turks of Central Asia.
Узбеки появились в 1924 году ,до этого они назывались Сартами, узбеки это новая нация,при Сталине получили название Узбекистан
When the Timurids invade in Medieval 2 Total War....
Awesome another history channel oh yeaaaaa subscribed
I would recommend some form of background music. Nothing overpowering, but something nonetheless.
How about something from pornhub?
no
1:28 Warhammer reference? Ah, man of culture... may Emperor bless you! (or the ruinous powers...)
Chagatai? Or Jaghatai? This narrator said “the Chagatai Khan” and I nearly shit my pants!
Im glad to leave a comment , I follow ypur channel a while now , and I really like your contend , very cool drawings combined with history that is not so much known in europe and western states :)
I used to have an arrow in the knee until I became I adventurer like you.
ohh i c u r a man of culture
timur : enslaving and killing thousand of fellow muslim neighbours
timur : *"I AM THE SWORD OF ISLAM"*
I thought it was "wrath of god"
He forgot to mention he was a double edged sword
I don't understand what kind of Muslim he was...
@@suspiciousmind192 me too bro me too
TIMUR"Scourge of GOD"
Man I love your videos ❤